The intentions of the Venezuelan president add to the offers of help from Argentina and Colombia to Uruguay.
To the offer of help from the Argentine government, by the president, Alberto Fernandez, now the intentions of the Venezuelan government are added, by the president Nicolas Maduro who offered “his humble help” to Uruguay against drought and water crisis.
During a speech at the signing agreements with barbadosthe Venezuelan president spoke about Uruguayan news and offered help, in the context of a drought that not only affects the country but also Venezuela and various areas of the region.
“Just as there is heat, and extreme drought, like the extreme case that our brother people of Uruguay, to whom we send, is experiencing, we take advantage of this opportunity, to send our solidarity greeting, our humble, modest offer of help. All the support to the Uruguayan people, who are going through an extreme situation of drought never seen before,” Maduro remarked in front of the Venezuelan and Barbados authorities present, as well as to the press.
Will another rejection come?
Last week the Argentine government offered formal help to Uruguay to deal with the water crisis. An aid that was rejected by the president Luis Lacalle Pou because he preferred to see how the situation evolved with the incipient rains over the weekend.
Argentina had made a formal offer, presented to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by the Argentine Embassy in Uruguay in which it raised the possibility of providing assistance to “respond to vulnerable populations affected by the water crisis,” according to media from the neighboring country.
The document offers to make available a mobile water treatment plant with a production capacity of 1,700 half-liter sachets per hour, as well as the displacement of an officer and three non-commissioned officers to operate the machinery.
Likewise, it also brings up the possibility of sending a ship from the Argentina Army of the “Aviso” type with a 200-ton cistern water handicap provided by Argentine Water and Sanitation SA (AySA). Bottled or tank water could also be added to this, but it would be subject to container availability that has not yet been confirmed.
Colombia, for its part, also made itself available to the local government to collaborate with whatever is necessary in the context of a water emergency. “We will contact your government to offer our help in everything you need,” the president wrote. Gustavo Petro, in your account Twitter, where he also expressed his solidarity with “the Uruguayan people who are suffering from the climate crisis and depleting their water reserves.”
Source: Ambito
